Update: In my mad rush to get everything working, I completely missed that 8.1 was released, which adds native 64-bitness. Apart from linking /usr/lib64/libeToken.so to /usr/lib/libeToken.so.8, there are no hacks required anymore! Yay!

I’ve just installed the oneiric release candidate. And I like the changes. And I like that with a little tweaking, my eToken still works!

I did a bare-metal install, as I’ve now upgraded to SSD. So, I’ve updated my tutorial to match.

Install 11.10 amd64. Now, even though SAC amd64 is supposed to be amd64, they lied, and it ships with i386 binaries that just happen to work on amd64. So you’ll need to prep your x86_64 system with i386 goodness, by using:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libhal1 opensc pcscd

Note that I said libhal1, in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to SafeNet’s user guide. if you don’t, you’ll see things pop up in /var/log/syslog like

Download the SafeNet Authentication Client for Linux 8.0. In theory you should have a support agreement with SafeNet to download this, but you CAN find it on Google, including from SafeNet themselves (hint: try SAC instead of the full spelling). Install it with

dpkg -i SafenetAuthenticationClient-8.0.5-0_amd64.deb

Note: if you’ve got this working before, you’ll notice that in 11.10 they’ve moved from /usr/lib being a link of /usr/lib64 to being it’s own directory; the result being the new location of /usr/lib64/libeTPkcs11.so for your PKCS11 applications.

So there you go. If you add the /usr/lib64/libeTPkcs11.so to Firefox and Thunderbird, you should see your certificates. If you run PKIMonitor, you should be able to modify your eToken.

This is more complicated than it should be, for no real reason. I like my eToken, and have been trying for a good year to get it working on 64-bit Linux. Today, I sat down, started from scratch, and nutted it out. The following 3-step procedure should be all that’s needed to get it working.

Install 11.04 amd64. Now, even though SAC amd64 is supposed to be amd64, they lied, and it ships with i386 binaries that just happen to work on amd64. So you’ll need to prep your x86_64 system with i386 goodness, by using:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libhal1 opensc pcscd

Note that I said libhal1, in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to SafeNet’s user guide. if you don’t, you’ll see things pop up in /var/log/syslog like

Download the SafeNet Authentication Client for Linux 8.0. In theory you should have a support agreement with SafeNet to download this, but you CAN find it on Google, including from SafeNet themselves (hint: try SAC instead of the full spelling). Install it with